President Poroshenko had engaged Russia and the Eastern Ukraine Separatists twice in drawing up two treaties, Minsk I and Minsk II. They were signed and placed in force and within those two treaties were methods to reunite all of Ukraine, including Crimea. It is interesting that plans for peace are being made that may not include the reunification of all parts of Ukraine.
This is definite Russian interference into the Ukraine elections.
March 20, 2019
By The Hill Staff
Ukraine's Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko (click here) told Hill.TV that Russian President Vladimir Putin is forcing Ukrainian voters to choose between further conflict with Russia or electing a presidential candidate preferred by Putin.
Lutsenko, when asked by Hill.TV's John Solomon last week if there has been any evidence of Russian interference in the upcoming elections, said, "This question was raised by Mr. Putin. Whether we go together with [President Petro] Poroshenko and we continue to wage war, or we go with anybody besides Mr. Poroshenko, and he works with anybody besides him."
"The question has been complicated not only because of the direct blackmail of Putin of the Ukrainian people but also of his influence on media resources in the country," Lutsenko added.
The Russian Embassy in Washington directed Hill.TV to recent comments made by President Vladimir Putin, in which he said there was a feeling of "Russiaphobia" among Ukraine's leadership, and called for unity between the two nations ahead of the election.
"I hope that the wave of various pre-election situations and combinations in Ukraine wrapped up in Russophobia, which we currently see, will subside, and at least some conditions for developing interstate relations will be created," Putin said....
The article below is about the same investigation into the black-ledger files.
March 20, 2019
By John Soloman
After nearly three years and millions of tax dollars, (click here) the Trump-Russia collusion probe is about to be resolved. Emerging in its place is newly unearthed evidence suggesting another foreign effort to influence the 2016 election — this time, in favor of the Democrats.
Ukraine’s top prosecutor divulged in an interview aired Wednesday on Hill.TV that he has opened an investigation into whether his country’s law enforcement apparatus intentionally leaked financial records during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign about then-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in an effort to sway the election in favor of Hillary Clinton.
The leak of the so-called black ledger files to U.S. media prompted Manafort’s resignation from the Trump campaign and gave rise to one of the key allegations in the Russia collusion probe that has dogged Trump for the last two and a half years....There is a letter in this article that clearly spells out the funds in question were to be directed by the USA's embassy and used in cooperation with Ukraine. That solves that mystery.
The next article by "The Hill" is a conglomeration of all sorts of innuendo regarding Ukraine's Anti-Corruption Center and a group partly funded by USA dollars and partly funded by George Soros, AntAC.
March 26, 2019
By John Solomon
While the 2016 presidential race was raging in America, (click here) Ukrainian prosecutors ran into some unexpectedly strong headwinds as they pursued an investigation into the activities of a nonprofit in their homeland known as the Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC).
The focus on AntAC — whose youthful street activists famously wore “Ukraine F*&k Corruption” T-shirts — was part of a larger probe by Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office into whether $4.4 million in U.S. funds to fight corruption inside the former Soviet republic had been improperly diverted....
The article is mostly inflammatory and is obviously partisan in it's tone. The fact of the matter is there is nothing wrong, except, the perception of the Prosecutor General's Office about a group partly funded by private contributions, namely George Soros. The question arises in the appropriate nature of a Non-Profit carrying out corruption investigations.
In the USA and it is mostly the focus of the Republicans that government functions should be conducted by private enterprises. So, this group AntAC is a non-profit that is partly funded by private donations and partly funded by the USA government, probably through USAID. I can understand how Ukraine doesn't see private operations as benevolent and suspicious for corruption, however, this is typical of a movement primarily put forth by the Republicans.
Now, the USA funding and the Soros funding can be looked into to determine their origins and accountability for its spending, however, the non-profit itself is not illegal or misrepresented.
The next article is dated April 1, 2019 and it seems to begin the issue of Joe Biden and Ukraine. Perhaps I need to put the final article first in order to prevent misunderstanding of the outcome. So, this article is from today. Which should be no surprise since the opening of the impeachment inquiry.
October 3, 2019
By Tal Axelrod
Ukraine’s former President Petro Poroshenko (click here) on Wednesday said that former Vice President Joe Biden never asked him to open or close any criminal cases as President Trump continues to rail against what he calls misconduct.
Poroshenko refuted Trump’s claims that Biden abused his power as vice president when he sought to pressure Kiev to dismiss a federal prosecutor who was investigating a natural gas company on whose board Biden's son Hunter Biden sat.
Joe Biden has said he wanted the prosecutor fired over insufficient efforts to tackle corruption, and no evidence has emerged to suggest he acted to benefit his son....
...Yuri Lutsenko, another of Ukraine’s former prosecutor generals, who was investigating Hunter Biden, said last month that his probe was abandoned after turning up no evidence of wrongdoing on Hunter Biden's behalf.
“From the perspective of Ukrainian legislation, he did not violate anything,” Lutsenko said of Hunter Biden.
Trump’s efforts to push Kiev to investigate Biden are at the heart of the House’s impeachment inquiry....
There are more articles surrounding these topics and I will list them here with links to those that care to read them, but, I am going to return to the Whistleblower Complaint to finish reading it's content. As far as I am concerned about the issue of corruption with Joe and Hunter Biden is closed and there simply is nothing supporting the rhetoric. The articles below are in chronological order.
Joe Biden's 2020 Ukrainian Nightmare: A closed probe is revived (click here)
Ukraine continues to fight corruption - don't believe the smear (click here)
Ukrainian to US prosecutors: Why don't you want our evidence on democrats? (click here)
Ukraine top prosecutor says no evidence on Biden (click here)
Ukrainian that meddled against Trump in 2016 is now under Russia-corruption cloud (click here)
Guiliani says "of course" he asked Ukraine to look into Biden seconds after denying it. (click here)
Hillary Clinton: 'The president asked a foreign power to help him win an election, again. (click here)
Guiliani, Fox's Roberts clash on appropriateness of Ukraine contacts (click here)
Former Zelensky advisor: Ukraine 'understood' discussing Biden was condition for talking to Trump (click here)
Ukrainian prosecutor tied to Trump scandal says Hunter Biden 'did not violate anything' (click here)
Ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister says Joe Biden's son must be investigated (click here)
Five things to know as Ukraine fallout widens for Trump (click here)
Volker met with advisor for Ukrainian firm at center of impeachment inquiry (click here)
Trump tweets clip inserting photo of Bidens and Ukrainian gas executive Nickback video (click here)
Those are all the articles I found in "The Hill" pertaining to the topic at hand.
Continued in next entry.
